Oh lord, Richard Stallman and others doing the Soulja Boy:

Capatilism blah blah blah coupled optimality blah blah blah asymmetrical distributed micronegotiation blah blah blah look at this video of a train running through a Bangkok market

From Luis Vasquez, a pair of training and recruitment videos for WCBN, circa 1989. I guess we sloughed off the commercial carrier-current station (the thinly veiled derision of the narrators for their “popular music format” is pretty funny). Other than that, not much has changed I think.

Sheer bloody genius.

I sure do miss the night sky. Used to be able to see the milky way from my back yard. Dammit.

Apparently this is from British Columbia. Sure do miss Squamish. Have I mentioned that? Sure do miss stuff.

Damn I miss Squamish.

If that’s who I think it is, I met him in my hot tub once and he does interesting grad research in extreme climatology. And, you know, is a pretty good unicycler.

With homework and research-assistanting once again forces in my life, I really need video to watch shorter than 3 1/2 hours. I tried Godfather 2, and it was good, but also long. These are much shorter options:

Anna Deavere Smith performing verbatim from her On the Road: A Search for American Character interview project:

And why the hell didn’t somebody tell me The Onion had launched a whole big video project? It seems really weird to me that a parody newspaper would all of a sudden have a staff of funny comedians doing news schtick, but I guess there’s no reason they can’t because they’re doing it. And it’s really well developed stuff, I think.

For instance:
‘Gays Too Precious To Risk In Combat,’ Says General

and
Al Qaeda Also Fed Up With Ground Zero Construction Delays

Not much to offer this week. A sense of existential unease prevents me from linking to any of R Kelly’s “trapped in the closet” chapters, which I was introduced to this week.

I will offer and recommend to you James Howard Kunstler at the TED conference. Nobody rants like Kunstler. Nobody. I’m never too sure about any of the facts he brings to the table, which makes his current fact-grounded crusade on peak oil feel more than a little shaky, but this is Jim in his previous home territory of the sins of modern American civic design. Here he presides like an angry god, the flaming sword of Jane Jacob’s fury manifest and merciless and vocabulary-dense.

Me, I’m going to go see the Bourne Ultimatum this afternoon. Bourne 1 was the bestest action movie evar. 2, pretty good too.